“I view any sort of expression or emotion as acting.” Get it.

I’d argue social media began with bulletin boards and Usenet-style newsgroups, which were extant well before the internet was in many households.

“Television was a mistake.”

Hmm. Why does publicly calling out someone famous for staged publicity stunts feel like a staged publicity stunt?

a real “I tried to read the book on a jostling, crowded bus but couldn’t pay attention; 0/10 book” take right here. and french fries suck because they don’t travel well. /s

*googles six movies from August about dinosaurs and drafts an essay about August being The Month of the Dinosaur*

wow what an iconoclast 

That feels like saying “good music won’t sound bad if played way quietly;” sure, there’s plenty of work where that holds true, but I wouldn’t knock something for failing to pull me in Sunday afternoon on tnt.

converse to the understandable focus on maximalism and spectacle in these choices, sometimes the more intimate or slow the movie, the better it plays for me on the big screen. i won’t go full “phones bad” here, but my attention span isn’t what it used to be and adulthood pulls one’s attention in a million directions.…

my favorite is The Jerk; menacing and funny!

Ugh, we lost a legendary “that guy” today. I love and excessively cite Ebert’s rule that any movie with M. Emmet Walsh or Harry Dean Stanton in it is worth seeing off their presence alone, even if brief.

it’s shoehorning if you’re asking a 48 year-old to play someone in their early 20s lol

Honestly the gambit of the 2016 version made sense: pick a group of the comedy stars du jour, suit ‘em up, and make ‘em bust ghosts.

That’s what’s so weird to me about this particular swath of reboots; it’s not necessarily weird that people have affection for Ghostbusters (fond memories here of running around the house with a canister vacuum, pretending it was a proton pack), but the straight-up reverence and nostalgia doesn’t seem to line up with…

the need to bring that movie up in any conversation about Ghostbusters only amplifies the “doth protest too much” of that discourse. like...let it go already.

yeah…that shot near the end of the door opening with the backlight and wind was just pulled right out of Aliens. really turned me off for how much it felt like it meant like i was supposed to be pumping my fist.

The fact that I can’t tell you whether there were 3 or 5 Neverending Story movies kinda says everything about the “sanctity” of this franchise. Nothing’s new, nothing ends, we’ll forget it if it isn’t good.

I push against the idea that animation is strictly for kids, and a little less against the same assumption about Star Wars. But watching those cartoons as an adult, I could not shake the fact that I was watching something strictly for kids.

man, three heavy paragraphs of “that’s just how Star Wars should be” really really go to show how refreshing it was to see someone shake things up with Star Wars.

Lots of people seem to think that the movies are not connected. Miller suggests this for some reason,